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单词 in the mouth of a person
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through (also by, †in) the mouth of a person
a. through (also by, in) the mouth of a person [compare Luke 1:70] : through a person acting as spokesperson or messenger. Now rare.
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society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > as deputy or representative [phrase] > through someone as spokesman
through (also by, in) the mouth of a personOE
OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) i. 70 Swa he spræc þurh hys halegra witegena muð.
c1200 Serm. in Eng. & Germanic Stud. (1961) 7 64 Steorre he vas icleped muchel er he iboren vere [þu]rþ balames muþ þe prophete þus queþind[e].
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2006 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 164 (MED) It nis mi dede nouȝt, Ake þoruȝ þe popes owene mouthþ in sentence heo beoth i-brouȝt.
c1390 G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale 1798 By mouth of innocentz, lo, heere thy myght.
a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 2 (MED) We aske þe, lauerd, þurȝ þe muz of þe profete, Wha in þi tabernakil sal wne.
c1500 Barounis Lawis f. 6, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) That dome gevin be the moutht of N soytour of B is evill.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxiiijv They rode forthe to mete the Emperour, whom..they receiued honorably by the mouthe of my Lorde of Mentz.
1611 Bible (King James) Luke i. 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets. View more context for this quotation
1666 Forbes Baron Court Bk. 267 In the mouth of the choncelar.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 76 The customs of London differ from all others in point of trial: for, if the existence of the custom be brought in question, it shall not be tried by a jury, but by certificate from the lord mayor and aldermen by the mouth of their recorder.
1870 Eng. Gilds Gloss. Assoyne,..excuse sent by the mouth of another for non-appearance.
1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 480/1 On being asked with what one should approach and kneel before the Most High God, He replies by the mouth of Micheas.
1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Dec. 44/2 Through the mouth of a Japanophile detective, John Connor, Crichton proposes the meta-Clausewitzian thesis that Japan views business as the extension of war by other means.
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(to be) in the mouth of a person
h. (to be) in the mouth of a person and variants: (to be) in a person's speech or conversation, to be on a person's lips. Formerly also: †to have something (also someone) in mouth (obsolete).
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 4136 (MED) Fra your scending be mad cuth, All men sal yow haue in mouth.
c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 20 Man scholde haue in his mouthe the trouthe of the verray knyghte Ihesu Crist.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 45/1 It redowneth greatelye to the dishonoure..of the kinges highnesse..to haue it runne in euery mans mouth..that the Kynges brother shoulde bee fayne to keepe Saynctuarye.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 242v Which sayinge was afterwarde in euery mans mouth.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 13 All man hes this word reformatioun in mothe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 188 Yong Arthurs death is common in their mouths . View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 447. ¶1 A Common-Saying..we often hear in the Mouths of the Vulgar.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 505 The names of..the..chiefs of the conquering army, were in many mouths.
1909 D. Houston 'E Silkie Man (1935) 14 If we dinna finish 'ir [harvesting] 'iss week, we'll be e' mooth e' pairish.
1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxix. 478 It amused him to hear the cast-off locutions of duchesses in the mouth of this ageing prostitute.
1963 T. Ware Orthodox Church viii. 165 It is not without reason that the expressions ‘Soviet Church’ and ‘Soviet Patriarch’ have now become common in the mouth of Russians.
1993 Spy Nov. 34/1 The kind of lunch-bucket wisdom more frequently found in newspaper columns than in the mouths of actual New Yorkers.
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in the mouth of a person
j. from the mouth of a person and variants: from the person specified as speaker; directly from the person specified chiefly as the originator of a statement, suggestion, etc., or as best able to bear witness to a certain state of affairs, etc. in the mouth of a person: by the spoken testimony of the person specified, in the opinion of, according to, as interpreted by (also figurative) (now rare). in (also with) a French (English, etc.) mouth: when spoken by a person of French (English, etc.) nationality (sometimes with reference to pronunciation). it does not lie in a person's mouth to and variants: it does not befit the person specified to (say something). out of one's own mouth [compare Luke 19:22] : by one's own evidence.
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c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 68 The law sais, jn the mouth of twa or thre personis all word suld be trowit.
a1500 Gospel of Nicodemus (Harl. 149) f. 268v (MED) Oure lawe seyth that, yn the mowthe of two wytnesses, alle þe lawe ys beleued.
1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xxiii. 82 That all men may heare from the mouth of the depositors and witnesses what is saide.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 151 And for whose death, we in the worlds wide mouth Liue scandaliz'd. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Luke xix. 22 Out of thine owne mouth will I iudge thee. View more context for this quotation
1614 W. Bradshaw Unreasonableness Separation (1640) 56 Why may not preaching [etc.]..be sufficient to argue our ministers to be true pastors and teachers, notwithstanding that in the mouth of the Law, they are sometimes called Priests and Deacons.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 77 I will come and learne from your owne mouth, all the particulars.
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 4 To smatter Latin with an english mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French.
1645 J. Winthrop Declar. Former Passages 3 When the English out of his owne mouth found him guilty, and would have sent him to Uncas his Sagamore Miantonimo earnestly desired he might not be taken out of his hands.
1653 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica Pref. sig. A6v The Jewish Cabbala is conceived to be a Traditional Doctrine or Exposition of the Pentateuch which Moses received from the mouth of God.
1703 J. Hay (title) Self-Condemnation: or the author of the second edition of the Debate in the Shop, condemned out of his own mouth.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 239. ⁋3 Socrates..would ask his Adversary Question upon Question, till he had convinced him out of his own Mouth that his Opinions were wrong.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 41 I had the Relation from his own Mouth.
1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 500 Hence, in a Roman mouth, the graceful name Of prophet and of poet was the same.
1813 T. Jefferson Let. 12 Oct. in Writings (1984) 1302 Their Platonising successors..found it necessary to disavow the primitive Christians, who had taken their principles from the mouth of Jesus himself, of his Apostles, and the Fathers contemporary with them.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 250 It..usually happens that these declarations become the means of condemning the accused, as it were, out of their own mouths.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 40 My princely nephew entertains with so much suspicion any admonition coming from my mouth.
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 76 The Frank..learned..his faith from the mouth of the Roman priest.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 644 in Idylls of King How, in the mouths of base interpreters..Is thy white blamelessness accounted blame!
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. ii. 44 It did not lie in his mouth to be curious on the subject.
1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds III. lxxii. 250 Though they had heard so much from her own mouth, they knew no more than they had known before.
1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. xxiii. 297 Those fine sentiments..had occurred to her before she heard them from the mouth of Miss Alice Bluestone.
1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. iii. 112 In other mouths Rousseau's sentiment..became unequivocally misanthropical.
1885 R. Churchill Speech (1889) I. 245 Does it lie in the mouth of members of that Government to taunt the Tory party with having no policy?
1906 J. London White Fang v. v. 325 Judge Scott surveyed them triumphantly. ‘Out of your own mouths be it,’ he said.
1988 Times 1 Mar. 39/2 The submission for the defendants lay ill in the mouth of those who..had spread the news nationwide for their own personal profit.
1990 J. Rogers Her Living Image (BNC) 140 She's condemned out of her own mouth.
1990 F. Fyfield Trial by Fire (1991) iii. 41 The confidences that had poured unbidden from her own mouth and into Helen's ears were rewarded by confidences in return.
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